Re: won't load .emacs init file

paul.d.mead <at> googlemail.com wrote:

> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m... <at> googlemail.com wrote:

>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>> being ignored.
>>
>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>> paul.

Reported only by your shell, or also by Emacs?  (`getenv')

Is the value of `user-init-file' correct?

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher